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Mavyn

Inky, that makes me giggle! Elsewhere on Monday, I commented that I needed to pay better attention to the volume of my at work music--I turned it on when I got in, early, and it was quiet--I failed to realize my music was VERY loud, loud enough to block out the noise of people around me. A friend shared this story:

Long ago and far away, I was once a graphic designed for a small-town newspaper. My job was fast-paced and time-limited, so I often used loud, driven music to pace my work. One day, I felt a tap on my arm from the young lady next to me, a kind and generous Christian family woman, with a most distressed look on her face. I took my headphones off. "You're singing under your breath," she said, clearly deeply disturbed. I apologized, then put one ear-cup back on: I'd been singing under my breath the main chorus sample from Ministry's Golden Dawn, and thus basically had been whispering over and over and over to myself the words, "The anti-christ, the anti-christ, the anti-christ..."﻿

inkycatz

Mavyn wrote:Inky, that makes me giggle! Elsewhere on Monday, I commented that I needed to pay better attention to the volume of my at work music--I turned it on when I got in, early, and it was quiet--I failed to realize my music was VERY loud, loud enough to block out the noise of people around me.

Best story of the thread!

Related, I was commenting to a friend earlier today I needed to be very careful to not sing along out loud with the very NSFW lyrics of Amanda Palmer while in my cube.

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